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Meanwhile, I don't even want to get into what Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez - whose win I was pleased about - are doing in Kansas against Sharice Davids (who's endorsed by Emily's List). So I'll let someone else do that.

@DRW50 will be disappointed I have not been able to keep up with #DoctorWhoOnTwitch's month long marathon, but I am watching stories online on dailymotion to slowly catch the ones I want but missed. Hope to watch Curse of Fenric, but I don't know which version they'll show. Paul Hanley, who did gorgeous art during Season 3 of Twin Peaks, has been doing illustrations throughout the marathon (much more on his Twitter):

Melissa Fumero and Stephanie Beatriz discuss ODAAT in an interview with Vulture:

Harvey has thoughts:

I don't know about syndicated, but I've pondered the streaming soap issue before and ultimately I think it still comes down to the Prospect Park soaps on Hulu - mismanaged by the higher-ups financially, but ahead of their time by a year or maybe just six to eight months. Soap-esque shows like Degrassi, etc., or even serial-trending sitcoms like Fuller House or One Day at a Time, succeed with arcs now on Netflix and Hulu in blocks of programming. With soaps, I would want to try to preserve at least some of the day-to-day format. It can never be what it is on network, but Netflix has experimented with releasing stuff weekly. I think that can be done with a soap - 3-5 eps a week or even day by day. I'd also try to refine what Prospect Park sort of attempted in a backwards way. They sort of fell into it because they ran out of money, but IIRC they made maybe 30-40 episodes of both AMC and OLTL. For better or worse, a pre-filmed block close to that is what I would attempt to release in segments to streaming - something people can watch over a month or two months with defined arcs and plots set against a larger ongoing canvas. Maybe their release is staggered week to week or every few weeks, something to preserve momentum and a sense of a daily world. Maybe that's impossible, but I'd try it. You get a bigger bang for your buck than the average streaming sitcom. And it can go on hiatus for months after - it's not going to run perpetually, 365 days a year anymore. That's not possible.

This didn't go the way the House GOP hoped:

It's a shame, but not particularly shocking. The Emmys love playing it safe. What really matters is the cultural perception, and that is that TP was robbed. Overwhelmingly the critics and general audience are absolutely lighting the Emmys up on social media right now about snubbing Peaks. That's good enough for me.

Sean Ringgold is in everything these days. I'm surprised Boys has apparently gotten mixed reviews. I'd assume it's media's natural knee-jerk ambivalence to the play being un-PC, to be honest, as they've had for years, but I have no idea. I am so behind on the Marvel shows.

Yeah, that guy got roasted for that piece. Meanwhile:

OLTL and Brooklyn Nine Nine's Melissa Fumero and Stephanie Beatriz are guesting:

Llanview's own Melissa Fumero (Adriana, OLTL) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine costar Stephanie Beatriz are guesting on One Day at a Time!

Robin Wright on Spacey:

Amber Tamblyn (Emily, GH) is profiled in Vulture.

No, never. I do seem to recall there was a solaramite/Buchanan race car reference at one point during the Carlivati era (I think solaramite had powered Bo's magic race car) but I don't believe IK was in any way involved. Nana Visitor from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine replaced Ilene as Georgina Whitman, IIRC.

Oh, that's right. She was staying there (I thought for school purposes) and she and Iva commiserated about Henry.

I just watched Meg's debut a few days ago. IIRC Meg was not long-lost, just away at school.

I'm only just getting to Kim learning the truth, but the scariest thing about Doug Cummings is how sweet and pleasant he often remains while talking casually about his madness. John Wesley Shipp remains a national treasure.

The island Pamela was from was Malakeva. Asa's island, which was separate, was St. Blaze's - the Bukes visited it often. I wasn't aware "Buchanan City" existed beyond the Old West years, when it was a frontier town. I would've paid money to see Victoria Wyndham turn up as an uber-villain for Viki and Dorian to team up against. Erika and Robin are legends but when Wyndham got going there was no one scarier - she was like a bat out of hell.

Meanwhile, still in early 1986: Shannon O'Hara is a lot crazier than I previously realized. Add in Farley Granger(!!) and this story is completely bananas. I have no idea what's going on but it's a hoot.